A couple of hours ago, the cyber space was awash with news ordinarily shouldn’t have bothered us. As could be predicted, this debate is dominated by my Tiv brothers and sisters on the new law, passed by the NKST Synod to check, according to them improper dressing in their churches. Interestingly, most of those discussing spiritual matters here hardly attend […]
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Governor, Samuel Ortom directed our Head of Service, Inwata Adaikwu to immediately offer brother, Isaac Sekav Ahungwa employment after completing his patriotic bicycle tour riding from Ibadan, Oyo state to Makurdi, Benue State. Sekav was granted half a million Naira (N500,000.00) by our governor to enable him settle and continue his great service to Benue State and Nigeria at large. […]
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I am by nature, a big dreamer; I don’t shy away from facing big ideas of development at all levels. I am not afraid that Makurdi, may in just three years become the 1st city in Nigeria with two airports ahead of early starters like Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt or Enugu. Neither am I shy of imagining that in 3 […]
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The Idoma traditional attire is popularly called, “Apa” by many parts of Idoma land, and “Edema” by the Edumoga people. The “black” colour on the Idoma attire signifies the “earth and burial shroud,” while the “red” colour signifies “royalty or red feather.”
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Dating for the cash… “Exactly!” Vanessa screams “and the most painful part is that Dad calculates every penny before it goes out!”, chips in Joy “Ha! All that money and Dad is so stingy, what kind of man is that anyways, he only gives money if its related to academics, the man forgets that looking fly is good business!” Vanessa […]
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I am confused on a lot of things in life right now, all my life I have always known its not going to be easy but hey is part of the process. Growing up my best colour was yellow but now its green, things change I know but some cross the line, even as hard as the tortoise back was […]
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For a woman to be a cripple in our clime where hard work is encouraged with little room for begging is a heavy demand for a mother of six. And for that same cripple to have lost her husband having five surviving children of school age, in fact below their teens, is what is described by a Nigerian musician as […]
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The Rural areas of Africa are the cradle for development and must be consciously and deliberately stimulated for the growth and development. Africa dose no need more of grants or donation from international bodies. What Africa needs now is the deliberate development of her potentials (which mostly are Agrarian) and show casing some to the global markets. Most of the […]
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Introduction Benue like every other state in Nigeria has been hit by dwindling income occasioned by the continuous down turn of oil prices plunging to record lows in over 40 years. The state, according to oral testimony from the Governor and other state officials has a monthly salary bill of about 3.7 billion. Over the past year, the state has […]
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The much awaited groundbreaking ceremony for the Cargopolis Makurdi Airport, eventually came to pass. It was the first time in Nigeria and the entire West African sub-region that an event for the construction of an airport of this nature and magnitude was held. In otherwords, when completed, the Makurdi Cargo Airport will be the first of its kind in the […]
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